Fire regime in a Mexican forest under indigenous resource management

Ecological Applications

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 764-775

  Fulé, Peter Z ^a   Ramos Gó Mez, Mauro ^b   Corté S Montãno, Citlali ^a   Miller, Andrew M ^c  

^a NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Dirección Regional Norte y Sierra Madre Occidental   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dendrochronology; Fire scars; Human caused ignition; Pine oak forest; Pino Gordo; Sierra Madre Occidental

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DENDROCHRONOLOGY; DORMANCY; DROUGHT; FOREST ECOSYSTEM; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HARVESTING; NATIVE SPECIES; NATURAL RESOURCE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; PALEOECOLOGY; PASTORALISM; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; TWENTIETH CENTURY;

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ETHNIC AND RACIAL GROUPS; FIRE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MEXICO; PHYSIOLOGY; SEASON; TREE;

AGRICULTURE; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIRES; HUMANS; MEXICO; POPULATION GROUPS; SEASONS; TREES;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; SIERRA MADRE; SIERRA MADRE OCCIDENTAL;

EID: 79955509964     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-0523.1     Document Type: Article

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